Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 31 January 2013 at 01:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 5. 46 Comments.
Ubuntu 13.04 OpenGL Desktops

Starting off with the CoreBreach racing game, the fastest desktops for running this OpenGL racing game were Xfce and Openbox, which don't rely upon compositing by default, while slightly behind those two was LXDE. The slowest desktop environments were KDE Plasma and the GNOME Shell.

Ubuntu 13.04 OpenGL Desktops

The Nexuiz game benchmark ended up being bottlenecked elsewhere in the OS stack so there was no real change between the different desktops on Ubuntu 13.04.

Ubuntu 13.04 OpenGL Desktops

To no surprise, Xfce, Openbox, and LXDE were the fastest. Unity and GNOME Shell led to having the lowest frame-rates.


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